Now Available! I’ve Got Your Back: Help Children Say Hello to Friends & Goodbye to Bullies
How can you protect children from being bullied? I’ve Got Your Backwill help you teach children the skills of positive, respectful friendships and resilient self-esteem. For parents, teachers, and all adults who work with children.

Welcome To Guest Blogger Cheryl Jackson! Cheryl’s long and distinguished career as a journalist (you’ll recognize her most recently as the host of the TVO Parents show) plus her experience and empathy as the mother …

Adults have spent much of the past 20 years in a misguided attempt to prop up kids’ self-esteem with over-inflated praise and under-inflated expectations. Self-esteem can only be increased by building confidence and competence, which …

Bullying Prevention Awareness Month is over for this year in the United States. There was an outpouring of articles, observances, interviews, videos and other means of distributing the anti-bullying message during the month of October. …

20 Tips for Bully-Free Schools – Tip #19 Help Others: Community Service Adults teach children about care & empathy when we help others. Teach children to help within the community. Watch for opportunities to build, deliver, decorate, paint, read, tutor, visit, teach, or coach. Look for ways for kids to share their unique skills …

20 Tips for Bully-Free Schools – Tip #18 Set Boundaries On Technology At Home Keep the Internet connection in a public family place. Have a family discussion to set limits: appropriate (& inappropriate) online behavior (echo & amplify school guidelines; review often!), daily time online, Facebook after homework, rules for cell phones at school …

20 Tips for Bully-Free Schools – Tip #16 Teach The Skills Of Apology, Accountability, Repair & Forgiveness People today view apology as weak. Just the opposite. It takes strength to face yourself in the mirror, take responsibility, & do the work needed to grow. Let kids sit with the discomfort of making mistakes. Don’t smooth …

20 Tips for Bully-Free Schools – Tip #15 Develop Stress Management Skills Stress undermines performance & disables bullying prevention. When we live at our max stress‐handling ability, we can easily bully, without meaning to or realizing it. Many adults have poorly‐controlled stress – we see the downsides daily. The stakes are even higher for …

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Your New Living Magazine article on bullying and brain damage in children spoke to me and helped put things in perspective. I truly believe this is what happened to me. I just turned 40.

JK

Thank you so much for coming to help my community. All the parents who attended your workshops are talking about it. Hope to continue working with you in the future.

NA

I have worked in several bullying environments and your tools are spot on!

EL

Your radio interview covered bullying from every angle – all the places it can occur, how to prevent it, how to deal with the bully, how to define it, how to form power circles, how to identify the environments to foster it.

GR

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